Poetry of Sappho
Poetry of Sappho
Poetry of Sappho
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As a sweet apple reddens<br />
on a high branch<br />
at the tip <strong>of</strong> the topmost bough:<br />
The apple-pickers missed it.<br />
No, they didn’t miss it:<br />
They couldn’t reach it.<br />
[LP 105a]<br />
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As a hyacinth in the mountains that men shepherding<br />
tread underfoot, and to the ground its flower, all purple [<br />
[LP 105c]<br />
<br />
As a poet <strong>of</strong> Lesbos surpasses foreigners<br />
[LP 106]<br />
<br />
Do I really still long for virginity?<br />
[LP 107]<br />
the poetry <strong>of</strong> sappho 27
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